Tech Thought Leaders is an independent publication about the infrastructure that runs modern software. Kubernetes, virtualization, containers, storage, and the security work that holds it together.
We are not a vendor blog. We have nothing to sell you, and we do not run press releases as news. We publish for the people who operate this stuff for a living.
We publish so platform teams can decide faster
Most coverage of enterprise infrastructure is written for buyers. It is long on positioning and short on what actually breaks in production.
We write for the people who carry the pager. Every piece should answer a question you can act on. What changed, whether you are affected, and what to do about it today.
We read primary sources. Vendor advisories, CVE records, release notes, regulator filings, and the documentation itself. When a vendor ships something good we say so. When a launch is mostly marketing, we say that too.
Written for the people who run the infrastructure
Platform engineers, site reliability engineers, infrastructure architects, and the product people who sit beside them.
If you are choosing a hypervisor, patching a fleet, sizing storage, or explaining to finance why the cloud bill moved, this site is for you. We assume you know what a node is. We do not assume you have time for a forty page analyst note.
We are based in Denver, Colorado
Tech Thought Leaders is published from Denver, Colorado.
We are a small independent outfit and the location is deliberate. A great deal of infrastructure work happens outside the usual tech capitals, and the people doing it deserve reporting that takes them seriously.
Tell us when we get it wrong
Send corrections, story tips, and hard questions to contact@techthoughtleaders.io.
We read everything. If we got a fact wrong we will correct it and say so in the piece, and we would much rather hear it from you than find out later.
We publish contributed articles from people who do the work
If you run Kubernetes in production, migrate hypervisors, or keep storage awake at night, your point of view belongs here. Send a short pitch to contact@techthoughtleaders.io and tell us the argument and why it matters now.
We look for first hand experience, specific numbers, and a clear point of view. We do not publish product pitches, ghostwritten marketing, or anything that exists mainly to move a deal forward.
Who edits this
Ivan Tarin is the editor and founder. He has spent his career in enterprise infrastructure, first as a developer and later in product marketing at SUSE, across Kubernetes, virtualization, container management, and storage. He writes most of what appears here and edits the rest.
Tech Thought Leaders is independent and is not affiliated with his employer.